FLORIDA.


landscape-gardening, and should adorn the grounds of every
homestead in Florida.
 The fruit is greatly and justly esteemed by the inhabi-
tants of Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, on account of its con-
centrated and nutritious properties : large numbers subsist


almost entirely upon it.



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It is generally the sole food of


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the Arabs and their camels on their long and tedious jo.ur-
neys over the desert, the men feeding upon the fruit and